Enhance the flavor of the foods you cook by using a bouquet garni , a mixture of herbs, either fresh or dried. A bouquet garni may be made from either fresh ingredients tied together, or dried ingredients mixed and placed in cheesecloth tied into a bag for dipping into soups, stews, sauces, casseroles or meat dishes. But these days, with...

Wash away winter with a stew. Watch its steam melt the frost from your windows. Sniff a whiff of its homemaking fumes. Stir it for solace. Sip it for comfort. Serve it for all the good things it holds and the warm feelings it brings. We instinctively turn toward stews in winter months, but often, in our culture, this means...

Last summer, Hadassah Magazine devoted one of its covers to a story on Jewish graphic novels, and proclaimed, for all the world to see, that an art form had at last "come of age." The work featured on the cover was French artist Joann Sfar's The Rabbi's Cat , which has been published in the United States by Pantheon to...

Ben Franklin … Jewish? What did he use to discover electricity - Yiddish kite? "Well, he might have been Jewish. I've heard that his actual name was Moshe Ben Franklin," joshes Josh Kornbluth, Jewish himself and Franklin's avuncular avatar on stage. Early to bed, early to rise - you still won't be able to put one over on this mirthful...

For many, thinking about organized crime will conjure up images of Italian mobsters like Al Capone or the fictional Michael Corleone from the three "Godfather" movies. In actuality, many of the most notorious and ruthless gangsters were actually Jewish. One of the mob figures with a long tenure was Meyer Lansky, a Polish Jew who grew up on the mean...